To ensure the “revolution of values” that Dr. King called for, justice and equality must be enshrined under new anti-racist systems. This requires exercising our imaginations, investing in peace education, and rethinking global economic and security systems. Only then will we defeat the evil triplets, “shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society,” and foster positive, sustainable peace.
Bread for the World provides a simulation as an interactive tool that helps people understand the connections among racial equity, hunger, poverty, and wealth.
23-year-old Toiell Washington launched her game company, The Master’s Tools, which focuses on addressing systems of oppression and telling the stories of marginalized people across a range of topics, social movements, and time periods.
Few audiences are familiar with the treasure trove of early Black theater, largely omitted from our national cultural legacy. Peace studies and peace education should challenge this omission as it does other injustices.
Facing History and Ourselves developed this “Teaching Idea” to help guide an initial class discussion on the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial.
Throughout the summer, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has brought a lot to the forefront of the public eye about systemic inequity, from police brutality to health care. One enduring topic that has come and gone when discussing inequity is education, which is affected by historic practices of redlining across the nation.
Trump’s call for “patriotic education” is dangerous. Instead, our schools need peace education to help contend with this moment of reckoning with racial and other forms of inequality in a genuinely inclusive way.
Read the full transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic,” where he outlines a vision of a new social contract and a Global New Deal.
Monisha Bajaj argues that the global field of peace education has rich insights to offer to the systemic restructuring of police forces and to the training of officers. “Peace” officers must be held to a higher standard and truly uphold and advance peace in the communities they serve.
“Seeking to dismantle a power imbalance that legitimizes racist acts of violence, without addressing those classroom practices and the racial hierarchies in our curricula, perpetuates systemic racism. Only a transformative pedagogy, founded on racial justice, will allow us to realize our ideals of diversity and inclusivity.” – Tauheedah Baker
Following years of activism in Oakland and a wave of recent protests against police brutality across the country, the school board voted this week to eliminate the city’s school police, calling it “a historic moment.”
How can we help students understand George Floyd’s death in the context of institutionalized racism? JSTOR Daily has published an extensive list of articles published over the past 5 years.
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